Choix des plus célèbres maisons de plaisance de Rome et de ses environs
A 1809 Paris folio of engraved plates by architects Charles Percier and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, published by Didot, documenting famous Roman villas and their gardens for architects and students of classical design. The plates show formal villa facades with rusticated stone, arcaded and colonnaded porticos, curved double staircases with balustrades, and clipped hedges and parterre gardens set against wooded hillsides, giving designers a reference for classical proportion, stair composition and garden layout.
